Senior Product Designer

About Apheris

At Apheris, we are building the future of how AI is applied in pharmaceutical R&D. We enable leading pharmaceutical teams to discover and develop drugs faster. We host the industry’s largest federated data networks for drug discovery AI, spanning co-folding, ADMET, and antibody develop ability. Across these networks, models are trained on proprietary industry datasets to achieve higher performance and broader applicability while keeping data control and IP protected.

We deliver these superior models through drug discovery applications that enable teams to run them at scale, further customize them, and integrate them into existing R&D workflows.

• AI Structural Biology (AISB) Network:
  Eight to 20 pharma companies collaborate in the field of co-folding, structure-based binding affinity predictions and antibody design.
• ADMET Network:
  Five to 50 pharma and biotech collaborate to improve small-molecule property prediction and expand to further drug modalities (e.g., PROTACs).
• Antibody Develop ability Network:
  Pharma partners collaborate to federate historical and purpose-built antibody develop ability datasets for secure ML training, without data leaving each partner’s environment.

• Strong experience as a Product Designer working on complex data‑driven or AI‑empowered products, with scientific or drug discovery users
• A user‑first mindset, with the ability to deeply understand specialist workflows and design interfaces that align with how users actually work
• Proven ability to move from low‑fidelity concepts to polished, production‑ready designs
• Experience using AI‑powered prototyping tools and a broad suite of high‑fidelity product design tools to rapidly explore, validate, and ship high‑quality experiences
• Comfort working in fast‑moving environments, iterating quickly and making pragmatic trade‑offs
• Strong communication skills, ability to clearly explain design decisions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Ownership mentality: you take accountability for design quality and are proactive in identifying and solving UX problems
• A portfolio that demonstrates thoughtful UX decisions, not just visual polish
• Experience running user interviews, usability testing, or design validation with external users
• Familiarity with drug discovery, life sciences, or chemistry‑related workflows
• Exposure to complex enterprise or B2B products
• Experience designing tools for scientific, technical, or data‑heavy domains

• Industry‑competitive compensation, including early‑stage virtual share options
• Remote‑first working – work where you work best, whether from home or a co‑working space near you
• Great suite of benefits, including a wellbeing budget, mental health benefits, a work‑from‑home budget, a co‑working stipend and a learning and development budget
• Regular team lunches and social events
• Generous holiday allowance
• Office Days at our Berlin HQ or a different European location (3x a year)
• A fun, diverse team of mission‑driven individuals with a drive to see AI and ML used for good
• Plenty of room to grow personally and professionally and shape your own role

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to take ownership of the UI/UX across Apheris’ growing portfolio of scientific applications. As we increasingly deliver end‑user products to drug discovery teams, great design is becoming critical to ensuring our tools are intuitive, efficient, and trusted by scientists in their day‑to‑day work. In this role, you will design products used primarily by medicinal chemists and computational chemists.

You will invest deeply in understanding how these users think, work, and make decisions, and translate that understanding into interfaces that feel natural within real drug discovery workflows. An important aspect of the role is making advanced ML outputs interpretable and actionable, helping users build confidence in model behavior and data‑rich results. You will work closely with the product team and domain experts to shape product direction from early discovery through to production.

This is a hands‑on role for a designer who enjoys rapid prototyping, iterative feedback loops,…